Full winners list will be posted up later (not by me) at http://beertown.org/events/gabf/medals/medalists.aspx and analysis up on Beernews.org tonight.

VIDEO & CHAT: Go to http://www.justin.tv/brewingnetwork and sign up for a free account. I will be in there chatting with people closer to the time things kick off. There will be a live video feed (no audio) there. There is a live chat integrated as well and I will be there and imagine some Brewing Network members will be, too.

AUDIO: To hear audio, you will need to enter this link into your browser (if you have Windows Media Player or something like that, a notice will pop up to open that link with the program): http://www.abacast.com/media/pls/thebrewingnetwork/thebrewingnetwork-sc-56.pls

LIVE BLOG: And if that fails you, you can always follow along with me here. I will be doing some play-by-play similar to what you might hear at awards shows (like “This is Tomme Arthur’s 9th award of the night” or “This is the 4th time that Beer X has medaled at GABF. Prior wins were in 2003, 2000, and 1998).” Stuff like that…

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THAT’S IT. I take it they dont base these entirely on medals. Pizza Port Carlsbad, Firestone Walker, and Iron Hill took home numerous awards. I will have some analysis up after the official awards list comes out but I will need some time to look it over. Should be up tonight.

Watch for the list to come out here: http://beertown.org/events/gabf/medals/medalists.aspx

Small Brewpub
Redwood Brewing out of Flint, MI

Large Brewpub
Rock Bottom Louisville CO

Homecooking..kidding

Small Brewery

ALESMITH WINS AND THEY DIDNT SHOW UP!
They didnt mention Peter Zein by name either.

Pardon the botching of names here….

Mid-sized Brewer of the Year

Pyramid Breweries Inc.
Simon Pesch

Large Brewer of the Year
Brewmaster

Anheuser Busch
Doug Moulman

Announcing breweries next….

75. Barley Wine-Style Ale

G – Redhook Treblehook – bit of a surprise
S – Alesmith Old Numbskull
B – Scratch #4 – The Flying Mouflan – Troegs (I thought it was pronounced Treggs not Troags? I could be mistaken)

74. Old Ale or Strong Ale

G – Alesmith Decadence – Late surge?
S – Old Scrooge -Silver City Brewery
B – Old Scratch Barley Wine – Madison WI brewery

73. Strong Scotch Ale

G – Alesmith Wee Heavy
S – Pizza Port San Clemente ?
B – Allentown PA

72. Imperial Stout

G – Hoppin Frog BORIS The Crusher
S – Pizza Port Carlsbad Night Rider
B – Great divide Yeti

And I officially have diagnosed myself with carpel tunnel syndrome

71. Oatmeal Stout

G – Gellas? Stout..got distracted again
S – Velvet Merkin – Firestone Walker
B – Schooners Oatmeal stout

70. Sweet Stout

G – Cream Stout from Redwood
S – Left Hand Milk Stout
B – Pizza Port Carlsbad Cow Stout

69. American-Style Stout

G – Rock Bottom Terminal Stout
S – Highland Black Mocha – just came out too
B – Troegs Dead Reckoning

68. Foreign-Style Stout

G – Black Diamond Stout – Sensing a theme
S – Blackhouse XX Stout?
B – Black Hole XXX Stout

67. Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout

G – Blarney Irish Stout
S – Shafthouse Stout
B – Pizza Port Carlsbad Truck? Stout – whoops spoke too soon

66. Robust Porter

G – Tucson AZ brewery
S – Albuquerque NM
B – Missed

65. Brown Porter

G – Whoops MISSED
S – Firehouse Porter
B – Tommyknocker Bronze Prospector

64. Belgian-Style Strong Specialty Ale

G – Darth Delirium
S – Brother davids Dubbel- Anderson Valley
B – Golden Armor

I think that does it for Tomme Arthur unless they dont award winning brewery based on medals

63. Belgian-Style Abbey Ale

G – Bishops Tipple Triple
S – Flying Fish
B – Boulevard Sixth Glass

62. Belgian-Style Lambic or Sour Ale

G – Lambic de Hill – Iron Hill – ON FIRE – I believe they lead w. 3 gold medals
S – Upstream Geuze Lambic – Nebraska, wow
B – Iron Hill Cassis de Hill – WOW they are on fire

61. Belgian- and French-Style Ale

G – Russian River Redemption
S – Midnight Sun Pride
B – Ommegang Rare Vos

60. French- and Belgian-Style Saison

G – Saison from Iron Hill – How many they got now?
S – Nodding Head Saison
B – JP Luciernaga

59. Belgian-Style Witbier

G – New Belgium Mother Ship
S – Red Rock Belgian Wit – they’re winning a lot
B – Squatters Wit

58. German-Style Wheat Ale

G – BJs Half the Beer I used to be – cool
S – Chicago IL Dunkel – missed it
B – Wasatch Hefe

57. South German-Style Hefeweizen

G – Wynkoop Wiksa Weiss
S – Starr Hill The Love
B – South German Hefe

56. German-Style Altbier

G – Detroit Dwarf
S – Railyard Ale
B – missed

55. American-Style Brown Ale

G – Kick Ass Brown CH Evans
S – Grand Teton Bitch
B – Elk Grove Bad Dog Brown

54. English-Style Dark Mild Ale or Brown Ale

G – Sweet Georgias Brown from Dylans Dam
S – missed it
B – Obi-Wan?

53. Irish-Style Red Ale

G – Redrock Red Ale
S – Rock Bottom La Hoya
B – Rock Bottom Orland

52. Scottish-Style Ale

G – Highland Courage from Rock Bottom Bethesda
S – Dels Chief Amber Ale
B – Railbender Ale from Erie Brewing

51. Extra Special Bitter or Strong Bitter

G – Deschutes Bachelor ESB their 2nd gold?
S – Sweetwater Motorboat – heavy contingent in the crowd
B – Canna Creek Brewing?

50. Bitter or Pale Mild Ale

G – Drop Top from Widmers
S – Bull & Bush Brewing
B – Left Hand Sawtooth

49. Imperial or Double Red Ale

G – Rockhopera from Venos Pizza Pub Brewery
S – Big Dog alpha red
B – Amicas Red Ale

48. American-Style Amber/Red Ale

G – Rogue Dry-Hopped Red
S – Ithaca Cascazilla
B – Rogue ?

47. Imperial or Double India Pale Ale

G – San Diego Hopnotic
S – Hollister Hip-Hop IPA
B – Port Hop-15

wow, 2 ones that ive never heard of

46. American-Style India Pale Ale

104 entries biggest category this yr

G – Firestone Union Jack – new favorites for the big one
S – Blind Pig IPA from Russian River – big pop
B – Bend Hophead

45. American-Style Strong Pale Ale

G – Rock Bottom Hopbomb
S – Firestone Nectar – heating up!
B – Organic IPA – Hopworks

44. American-Style Pale Ale

G – Firestone Pale
S – Drakes Brewing
B – Firestone Pale Ale

43. English-Style India Pale Ale

no gold or silver. BOOOS

WOW A BREATHER

42. Classic English-Style Pale Ale

G – Full Sail Pale Ale
S – Clipper City Pale Ale
B – missed

41. English-Style Summer Ale

G Surfers Summer Ale – Pelican Brewing
S – Montgomery Blond
B 312 Urban Wheat from Goose Island

40. German-Style Kölsch

G – Windblown Blonde from Stewarts Brewing in DE
S – Sierra Nevada Kolsch
B – missed

39. Golden or Blonde Ale

G – Steelhead from Mad River
S – Alaskan Summer – their 3rd or 4th medal
B – Chicago All-nighter

38. Baltic-Style Porter

G – Bluegrass Brewery from KY
S – Flossmoor Killer Kowalski (big pop, too)
B – Sixpoint SMP

37. German-Style Strong Bock

G – Capitol Autumnal Fire
S Deepwater Doppelbock from Thomas Creek
B Maui Doppelbock

36. Bock

G – Sandlot Goat Rancher – this is their 3rd or 4th
S – Elk Grove – just closed down their brewery too :/
B – Tommyknocker Butthead Bock

35. German-Style Schwarzbier

G Wynkoop B3K
S Bohemian Cherney Bock
B – missed it

34. American-Style Dark Lager

G – NO GOLD MEDAL!! Boos from the crowd. Not uncommon though
S Leinenkugels Creamy Dark
B Henry Weinharts Classic Dark

33. European-Style Dunkel

G – Redwood Munich Dark
S – missed it
B Michelob Amber Bock

32. American-Style Amber Lager

G – BJs Oktoberfest
S – Flying Dog Old Scratch
B – Bear Replublic El Oso?

31. German-Style Märzen

G – Flying Dogtoberfest
S – Saratoga Lager
B – Munsterfest from FFF – their first award

30. Vienna-Style Lager

G – Iron Hill ? Lager – big pop from the crowd
S FW Oaktoerfest
B – Clipper City Marzen

29. American-Style Specialty Lager

G A-B Hurricane High Gravity
S -Missed it
B Busch Ice

28. American-Style Lager or Premium Lager

G Pabst Olympia – never heard of it
S Pabst Blatts
B Henry Weinharts Private Reserve

27. American-Style Light Lager

G Coors Light

S Old Milwaukee Light
B Keystone Light

26. Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest

G Rolling Thunder Dortmunder
S Westy Export
B Penn Oktoberfest

25. Munich-Style Helles

G Laurelwod Helles
S St. Arnold Summer Pils
B BS Helles from The Sandlot

24. Bohemian-Style Pilsener

G – Pleasantville Pils, Durango Brewing
S – Pug Ryans Brewery
B – Bear Republic Double Ott

23. German-Style Pilsener

G – Kaiser from a Pittsburgh brewery
S Pizza Port Party Pants Pilsner – no idea if I heard that right
B Victory Prima Pils

22. International-Style Pilsener

G – Session Premium Lager
S – Sandlot Yup, Still Boneheads – Cool name

21. Smoke-Flavored Beer

G – Sly Fox Rauchbier
S – Alaskan Smoked Porter 07 – wow, same beer wins twice!

20. Zwickelbier

g- damn, missed it!
S – Hellen Keller

19. Aged Beer

G – Alaskan Porter 06
S – Vintage Speedway Stout
B – Sam Adams 2003 ?

18. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer

G Bullfrog Beekeeper out of Pennsylvania
S Iron Hill Cherry Dubbel
B Cascade Kriek Ale

17. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer

G Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Barley Wine
S Bull & Bush Brewery in Denver
B Captain Lawrence Golden Delicious

16. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer

Gold – Old Jack – Ram Brewery
Silver – Missed it but IN brewery
Bronze – Barley Island Beastie Barrel Stout

Indiana sweep?

15. American-Style or German-Style Sour Ale –

Gold – Deschutes the Dissident
Silver – Ithaca Brute
Bronze – Squatters Element

14. American-Belgo Style Ale: Pizza Port Big Wednesday gets Bronze, Silver to Pumphouse Restaurant, Gold goes to Captain Lawrence for Xtra Gold

Anhesuser Busch Red Bridge wins Gluten Free category

Cambridge Arcubus wins next Experimental category

Other Strong Beer – FiftyFifty Imperial Stout takes bronze, Silver: Boundary Bay Imperial Oatmeal, Gold: Durango Derail Ale

Session Beer – USS Minno Mild Ale takes Silver, Gold goes to Boulevard 312 Wheat

Specialty Honey beer – Gold goes to Capitol City Honey Lager (Washington DC)

Iron Hill Roggenbier wins Gold (pardon spelling)

Specialty beer – Bronze – Palo Santo Marron, Silver – Rogue Hazelnut, Gold – DFH Red & White
Wow 3 awards for DFH in first 7 categories

Grand Lake? Java the Hut wins gold in coffee category

Herb Spiced or Chocolate beer – Town Hall Russian Roulette wins gold, DFH Pangaea wins silver

Analysis will come afterwards, they’re going so fast.

Wow,impossible to keep up!

Pyramid Apricot Ale wins Gold

Henry Weinhardts wins Hefeweizen category

3:30 Pyramid Crystal Wheat wins gold

3:29 Pabst wins Gold in Cream Ale category with Lone Star

3:28 2,902 beers judged, 472 breweries = biggest competition ever! Awards coming now!

3:23 Big Time Brewing won gold in the Pro-Am competition with its Scottish Ale.

3:15 They announced that they are doing SAVOR! again on May 30. I missed where.

3:12 Quick toast to Michael Jackson. Pardon me while I do some last min. research! I will be back after these journalism awards are done. Oh, and Lew Bryson just won.

3:11pm They are going to do the journalism awards right now.